Ticket to Prague (Puffin Teenage Fiction S.) - Softcover
When tough Amy Douglas is working in a psychiatric hospital, she strikes up a friendship with Josef, an elderly patient, an acclaimed Czech poet in exile and a suspected traitor. Together they visit present day Prague where his return arouses fears of denunciation of former communist collaborators. Amy finds her loyalties torn when she becomes involved with an idealistic Czech student who doubts Josef's motives. As Josef's official reception approaches, violence erupts as people try to prevent Josef speaking. However, Josef's intention is not to denounce anyone but to preach reconciliation through his poetry.
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The fall of the Iron Curtain brings challenge - and danger
Amy Douglas is in trouble with her school, with the police and with her aunt. She is ordered to do community service in a mental hospital and suddenly her life changes. She meets another 'reject' from society, Josef, an elderly poet driven out of his homeland, Czechoslovakia. The two outcasts discover a mutual love of books; and soon the new friends are travelling together to Prague, where Josef is to receive a literary award. Ahead for Amy is love, a test of friendship, danger and discovery. I have tried here to capture the mood of transition in Prague from Communist rule to the hazardous freedoms of the age which followed the end of the Berlin Wall and the division of Europe. At the same time the story of Ticket to Prague explores the bonds which can grow between generations and cultures.
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Amy Douglas is in trouble with her school, with the police and with her aunt. She is ordered to do community service in a mental hospital and suddenly her life changes. She meets another 'reject' from society, Josef, an elderly poet driven out of his homeland, Czechoslovakia. The two outcasts discover a mutual love of books; and soon the new friends are travelling together to Prague, where Josef is to receive a literary award. Ahead for Amy is love, a test of friendship, danger and discovery. I have tried here to capture the mood of transition in Prague from Communist rule to the hazardous freedoms of the age which followed the end of the Berlin Wall and the division of Europe. At the same time the story of Ticket to Prague explores the bonds which can grow between generations and cultures.
James Watson, a former journalist, now combines writing with lecturing in communications and media studies. He is the author of a number of novels for older readers, usually dealing with political themes. He has also written educational books and plays for radio. TALKING IN WHISPERS won the Other Award and the Buxtehuder Bulle Prize and was highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. James lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0141300086
- ISBN 13 9780141300085
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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